Back near the end of 2020, I began to write short reactions after reading a book. This practice stemmed from an online community that has an “I just finished reading” section of posts. I enjoy the process and, when reading a book, look forward to jotting down a few paragraphs when I finish.

They’re written with an intention to not include plot details that might spoil something for someone who has not read the particular work.

New book jots will be posted as I write them. If you’re interested in checking out older ones, you can navigate to the reading list pages; any book I have listed as having read that has an accompanying book jot is underlined in the year-by-year lists. Clicking on the underlined book title will bring you to the book jot. The first book jot is from December 2020, and I’ve been doing them since.

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